Sonex Electric Sport Aircraft

Electric Sport Aircraft
Role Homebuilt aircraft
Manufacturer Sonex Aircraft
Designer Sonex Aircraft Hornet's Nest
First flight 3 December 2010 (Waiex Test Bed)[1]
Status Development ended
Developed from Sonex Aircraft Xenos[2]

The Sonex Electric Sport Aircraft (ESA) was a two-place (one place with additional batteries) aircraft design that was under development by Sonex Aircraft, using the 80 hp (60 kW) Sonex e-Flight electric system for thrust.[2] Sonex designed this aircraft as a part of an attempt to develop alternate fuels, to ensure feasibility of inexpensive sport aviation in the future.[3][4]

The last update on the project was put out by the company in 2011 and the webpage about it was removed in 2017.[2][5]

  1. ^ "E-Flight Electric Waiex Achieves First Flight". Archived from the original on February 3, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c Sonex Aircraft. "E-flight ESA". sonexaircraft.com. Archived from the original on February 12, 2018. Retrieved November 23, 2022.
  3. ^ "Sonex Unveils Electric Airplane". Archived from the original on March 30, 2012. Retrieved October 22, 2011.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference flightglobal_sonex_plans was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Sonex Aircraft (April 20, 2011). "E-flight progress updates". sonexaircraft.com. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved November 27, 2022.